Winners of the 2022 McGovern Medical School Pilot Grant
Congratulations to Drs. Cynthia Ju and Kangho Kim for winning the 2022 McGovern Medical School Pilot Grant Award. This award will facilitate close a collaboration between the Ju and Kim Labs to identify functional significance of de novo EET biosynthetic…
Dr. George Williams Elected the 2022 Texas Society of Anesthesiologists President
Congratulations to Dr. George Williams, who was recently elected as the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists (TSA) President Elect. He will being his active presidency in September 2022. His focus as a society is to reinforce practices in large and small…
Guillermina King Featured on UT Health Spotlight
When did you join UTHealth? What brought you here? Originally from Mexico City, my family visited Houston and the Texas Medical Center regularly. My grandmother was treated at Methodist Hospital for six months. My mother had two open-heart surgeries at…
UTHealth Houston Departments of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine Team With US Army to Improve Casualty Care
On April 19, 2022, The University of Texas System and the United States Army Futures Command (AFC) announced an official educational and cooperative research partnership to advance medical science and technology to save lives both on and off the battlefield….
Department Updates – April 2022
On Tuesday April 5, 2022, the Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPM) hosted its annual National Institutes of Health (NIH) Style Mock Study Section. A major goal of the CPM is research training for physician-scientists and PhD scientists and a critical…
Welcome to the Department of Anesthesiology – New Team Members for January through March 2022
We would like to welcome the below new faculty and staff members to the department. Alexis Horn Alexis joined the department on March 28, 2022 as a Residency/Fellowship Program Coordinator I and is a part of the Residency/Fellowship Administration. …
IBD Group 2022 Updates
News Updates: Research on Intestinal Inflammation in the Center for Perioperative Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology at the McGovern Medical School in Houston We would like to express our deep gratitude for the continuing generosity of Mr. Brad McWilliams…
Dr. Xiaoyi Yuan Awarded NIH Highest Research Grant
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded its highest offered grant to Xiaoyi Yuan, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, a nearly $2 million Research Project Grant (R01) to fund research on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Dr. Yuan’s project…
Dr. Naveen Vanga Appointed Vice Chair for Education
The Department of Anesthesiology would like to announce that, following a national search, Dr. Naveen Vanga has been appointed as Vice Chair for Education. Dr. Vanga’s appointment will take effect on March 1, 2022. In this role, he will lead…
McGovern Researchers Lead Long-Term COVID-19 Study
A UTHealth COVID-19 ARDS Research Team, led by Ben Bobrow, MD (Chairman Emergency Medicine Department, and the Texas Emergency Medicine Research Center’s translational research team) in conjunction with researchers from the laboratories of Xiaoyi Yuan, PhD, Marie-Francoise Doursout, PhD, and…